Spring Summit 2019

9th to 11th April 2019 in Galway, Ireland

Thank You!

And that’s a wrap on the InnerSource Commons Spring Summit 2019! A special thanks to all attendees and speakers for visiting Galway to share experiences and making this summit so interesting, engaging and fun!

event

Tuesday, April 9th
09:00 - 09:15	Opening: Dr. Lorraine Morgan
09:20 - 10:20	John Landy (Ericsson) Eoin Conneelly (Ericsson)	Keynote: (Show Abstract) Details appearing shortly
10:25 - 10:55	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	Georg Gruetter (Robert Bosch)	A Decade of InnerSource at Bosch (Show Abstract) I will share the story of InnerSource at Bosch, which started about a decade ago. In my talk, I will share interesting details about the beginnings and the evolution of InnerSource at Bosch as well as many lessons that we learned along the way.
11:35 - 12:05	Thomas Froment (Thales)	How we implement Inner Source community in Thales? (Show Abstract) Thales Inner Source Software (TISS) Community is born from the Thales Digital Transformation call for initiatives in 2016. As key differentiator with previous tentative to promote source code sharing and reuse, it has been designed from the beginning to tackle key aspects of the Open collaboration: legal, tools and cultural change. Today, this community is organized like an “internal” open source foundation and is continuously growing within the company. Thomas Froment, as leader of the Community, will present his feedback from experience, enlightening how they are trying to implement Inner Source in this multinational company (65 000 employees, including 25 000 engineers over 56 countries). Key topics that will be addressed: Governance, Legal, Tooling, Promotion & Incentives, transparently sharing about successes, failures, open issues and the challenges they are facing in 2019 for scaling TISS at the group level.
12:10 - 12:40	ben van 't ende (Age of Peers)	Detox your Inner Source (Show Abstract) Collaborative practices are adopted naturally by participants in today’s open source projects. Many people in IT culture have been ‘raised’ with teamwork and open communication as an integral part of open source culture. Not so for the giants that with their strides make bigger steps, but at the same time find themselves reluctant to change. It is not uncommon during an InnerSource implementation to see the industrial habituated patterns rear their ugly head. Humans can be exceptionally creative in both positive and negative ways. Just as different motivations propel human ingenuity forward, equally they can hold us back. What are the possible reasons behind your InnerSource losing traction and what we can do the get things back on track?
12:45 - 13:45	Lunch
13:50 - 14:50	Katrina Novakovic (Redhat)	Workshop: Most organisations are Better than they Think (Show Abstract) Red Hat, the world's leading provider of Open Source Enterprise solutions, has open sourced an assessment tool, called Open Source Maturity Assessment (OSMA), to allow organisations to understand their current maturity regarding their knowledge, adoption and ability to effectively utilize Open Source / Inner Source technologies within their organisation. The assessment poses a number of questions with multiple choice answers around the following key areas: Business Goals, General Knowledge of Open Source, Development Standards and Tools, Upstream Community Participation, Governance & Legal Policies and Senior Management Support. The results of the assessment are used as a starting point to give an organisation a better understanding of their business goals regarding Open Source / Inner Source software and methodologies, the focus areas to address (under the areas of consume, contribute, create and strategy/governance) and recommended next steps. During this workshop, we will: Have each individual attendee run through the assessment tool to determine their organisation's maturity Analyse the results to highlight areas for an organisation to focus on Hold an open discussion on organisation maturity, including issues encountered and ways to increase the maturity level The assessment itself is Open Source and the code can be found at https://github.com/boogiespook/osma. It is a simple LAMP stack, allowing questions and responses to be customised for an organisation. The maturity tool has been presented and then used by a number of organisations, large and small, to help them understand where they are on their Open Source journey.
14:55 - 15:25	Hong Phuc Dang (Zalando)	Open Source within the walls: The Case of a German fashion Platform (Show Abstract) This presentation covers InnerSource Discovery Phase at Zalando and best practices that are currently adopted throughout the company.
15:30 - 15:55	Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30	Shelly Nezri (Elbit Systems Ltd.)	Gamification as a means of cultural change and an InnerSource engagement booster (Show Abstract) When Elbit Systems launched its InnerSource program, it decided to drive cultural change through gamification. Shelly Nizri offers an overview of the Software Guild, an innovative gamification approach to increase engagement and encourage collaboration in the organization. Join in to learn how the company prevailed despite humble resources and conquered all challenges in the spirit of InnerSource
16:35 - 17:05	Wolfgang Gehring (Daimler TSS)	Case Study: Daimler TSS’s Path Towards Inner Source (Show Abstract) So you have decided that Inner Source is the way to go for your enterprise. Good for you! The rest is just a piece of cake. You only need to explain to your employees what this is all about. Oh yeah, and talk to the people from corporate tax, should be no problem, you know a guy there. Then get the legal department to answer some simple questions, and off you go! Ok, tooling is an issue, too. And governance... Alright, so you haven’t thought about all the minor details, but you just get everybody’s attention and spread the word. Easy! Right?!? Well, let me talk a little bit about our journey at Daimler TSS. We haven’t solved everything yet, but we’re on a good path, and maybe our experience can help you a bit, too.
17:10 - 17:20	Closing (Dr. Lorraine Morgan)

Wednesday, April 10th
07:50 - 08:50	Yoga Session (Room CA242) Come refresh your body, mind, and spirit before you head into the day’s sessions. 'Discover Your Inner Source' - This yoga session will be an easy beginner’s yoga session. Don’t be shy about joining even if this will be your first yoga experience.
09:00 - 09:10	Opening (Dr. Lorraine Morgan)
09:15 - 10:15	Brent Beer (GitHub)	Keynote: The Future of Inner Source Software Development (Show Abstract) GitHub is the platform on which most Open Source Software is written; generating massive amounts of value by connecting developers across the globe to work on some of the most ambitious problems. Understandably, businesses wanted to join that network and reproduce it within their own organizations as InnerSource. These same businesses are now struggling to find workflows that that are flexible enough to evolve with their corporations and the ever-changing way that Open Source is developed. GitHub has a vision of helping Enterprises implement InnerSource practices by investing and building upon their networks while keeping customer data and business practices secure. Join Brent Beer while he shares some of GitHub’s recent successes and plans for the future.
10:20 - 10:50	Coffee Break
10:55 - 11:25	Jorge Herrera (Entelgy) Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar (Bitergia)	Thoughts on adopting InnerSource and/or Agile (Show Abstract) One of the main questions that any company willing to try InnerSource is how this can be integrated with their current way of developing. Even more, some of them have recently started with Agile and this may be seen as ‘yet another software development approach’. Agile and InnerSource are defined in both cases and [e.g.: in the Wikipedia] as software development practices. However it seems that it is still not clear how each of them can complement the other. This talk aims at bringing on the table some thoughts on how Agile is being used by some large corporations, and how InnerSource is being applied by some others. We do not aim at stating facts, but at opening a fruitful discussion with the audience with the goal of bringing more uses cases and sharing experiences among the attendees.
11:30 - 12:00	Olivier Liechti (Avalia Systems)	Agile transformation at Softplan: guiding teams with data-driven experiments (Show Abstract) How do you bring a legacy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to "The Cloud", with the promise of enabling new business models and reducing costs? How do you tackle an enormous technical and organizational debt accumulated over decades? How do you initiate a radical transformation and how do you put people in motion? These are the challenges that the newly hired CTO of a business unit within Softplan, large Brazilian company, accepted a couple of years ago. In this talk, we explain how we had the opportunity to work with the CTO, and to support hims with a data-driven approach. After introducing the notion of software analytics, we explain how we have used metrics first to diagnose the problems, and then to support a continuous improvement process. We review a series of specific experiments done in this context, discussing both successes and challenges. We emphasize the human aspects of the transition and explain how metrics can be powerful when it comes to trigger conversations and to drive behavior change. We explain how our initial recommendations were to inspire teams to adopt practices that can be seen "in action" on GitHub. When we embarked on this journey, we did not know about the InnerSource Commons. Nevertheless, some of the problems that we encountered are very similar to those enlisted in the Patterns Catalog. In the talk, we map our experiments to problems described in the catalog. We compare our solutions to those embodied in the patterns.
12:05 - 13:00	Lunch
13:05 - 14:30	Kristoff Van Tomme (Provonix)	Workshop: Dealing with common InnerSource Issues through Developer Portals (Show Abstract) During the last InnerSource Commons and Patterns sessions, there have been a set of issues raised by the community. Those are related to the discoverability, findability, awareness, documentation, and others. In this talk, Kristof Van Tomme and Daniel Izquierdo will discuss the use of a Developer Portal as a way to centralize and deal with all of these related patterns. After the introduction we will split out into discussion groups to work on key patterns that the audience believes need to be included in most innersourcing portals.
14:35 - 15:00	Coffee Break
15:05 - 15:35	Malcolm Herbert (Red Hat)	Why Inner Source when you can Open Source (Show Abstract) Over the last 10 years, Red Hat Consulting has offered services around open source process and culture, alongside its normal technology based offerings. Whilst Red Hat is an Enterprise software solutions company, it also is the leading proponent of how open source works and why it produces good software, using a community powered approach. This paper discusses: If it is possible, open source should be considered in favour of inner source as an approach for an organisation If Inner Source is the only option, what should be considered during this phase of a project
15:40 - 16:10	Kevin Newman (Harvard Business Review)	How to fail implementing InnerSource (Show Abstract) An informal, but hopefully informative, presentation on the challenges of implementing InnerSource at a medium-sized, non-technical company. Harvard Business Publishing’s mission is to improve the practice of management in a changing world, and our areas of focus are in publishing and learning pedagogies. We thoughtfully recognize that while we are not a “technology” company, we treat software engineering as a core competency that can make or break our strategy. Adopting InnerSource was seen as a key component in our long term plans but fell far short of our expectations. We’d like to share our experience not as an any inherent indictment of InnerSource but as cautionary tale of intent and aspiration versus every day and unexciting, but very real, constraints.
16:15 - 16:45	Max Capraro (Friedrich-Alexander-University) Johannes Tigges (HERE Technologies)	The Inner Source Learning Path (Show Abstract) Inner source is the application of open source methodologies to internally-developed software. While simple to define, inner source can be difficult to explain and implement successfully. Many engineers lack background in open source and the ideas and mechanics of open code development. Even those with that background face a new set of constraints and motivations when trying to work openly within the enterprise. The Inner Source Learning path gives a simple, easy to understand introduction to inner source. It introduces key terms, concepts, and principles for effective inner sourcing along with explanations and real examples. It is intended to bring newcomers up to speed as well as provide those with experience a common vocabulary to use when discussing more advanced concepts. The Inner Source Learning path will be freely hosted by O'Reilly Media at https://www.safaribooksonline.com/learning-paths for your use and sharing. In this session we'll review the content of the learning path and how you can use and share it.
16:50 - 17:00	Wrap-Up – Feedback (Dr. Lorraine Morgan)
19:00	Social Event held at the Harbour Hotel with entertainment by Carmel Dempsey

Thursday, April 11th
09:00 - 09:10	Opening (Dr. Lorraine Morgan)
09:15 - 10:15	Brian Fitzgerald (Director of Lero, University of Limerick)	Keynote: Crowdsourcing Software Development: Silver Bullet or Lead Balloon (Show Abstract) Crowdsourcing is emerging as an alternative outsourcing strategy which is gaining increasing attention in the software engineering community. However, crowdsourcing software development involves complex tasks which differ significantly from the micro-tasks that can be found on crowdsourcing platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk—the latter are much shorter in duration, and typically very simple and do not involve any task interdependencies. To achieve the potential benefits of crowdsourcing in the software development context, companies need to understand how this strategy works, what challenges arise, and what factors might affect crowd participation. Research to date on crowdsourcing software development has tended to focus on the ‘crowd’ or the technical platform, with little research from the perspective of the customer who is seeking to leverage the crowdsourcing development model. The findings from an in-depth case study of crowd-sourcing software development in a Fortune 500 company are augmented with an analysis of over 13,000 crowdsourcing competitions over a ten-year period on the Topcoder crowdsourcing platform, one of the most popular platforms for software development, are drawn on to evaluate the effectiveness of crowdsourcing in a software development context.
10:20 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20	Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar (Bitergia) and Ana Jimenez Santamaria (Bitergia)	Metrics and KPIs for an InnerSource Office (Show Abstract) Metrics are an important part of the InnerSource journey. The InnerSource Commons has been a great place for discussion around the topic. Specifically the InnerSource Patterns community delivered a pattern focused on first steps with metrics [1] where no specific metrics are detailed, but this gives a starting point to discuss when, how and what to measure. This talk aims at detailing these set of metrics and KPIs for further discussion across the community. This is based on work in progress in the GrimoireLab/CHAOSS community, a Linux Foundation Project. The proposed set of metrics are split into three main areas: Activity, Community and Process. [1] https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/master/introducing-metrics-in-innersource.md
11:25 - 11:55	Tobie Langel (UnlockOpen)	Making the Business Case for Contributing to Open Source (Show Abstract) Details appearing shortly
12:00 - 12:55	Lunch
13:00 - 13:45	Kristoff Van Tomme (Provonix)	7 cultural insights to help you reinvent your organization (Show Abstract) Culture is hard to describe, and even harder to emulate. So how do you even start to establish an open source-like culture? What are the underlying principles on which these cultures are built? For the past 13 years, I’ve been reading and thinking about these questions, trying to understand what makes some open source projects succeed and causes others to fail. In this talk I want to introduce 7 mental models and surprising insights that I have adopted along te way that have transformed the way I think about business. I will present the insights together with references to the books from which they were derived, and explain why I believe they can help an organisation to build an open source-like culture.
13:50 - 14:30	Danese Cooper	Governance Meeting
14:35 - 14:45	Closing (Dr. Lorraine Morgan)

Call For Presentations

Use this form to submit your proposal here for the InnerSource Commons Spring Summit 2019

All proposals are due by midnight, February 17th, 2019. All presentations at the Spring Summit, unless otherwise designated by the presenter, will be covered by the Chatham House Rule. See the Chatham House Rule.

Registration

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Call For Sponsorship

We invite interested organisations and companies to sponsor this renowned event. These summits provide a basis to encourage InnerSource practitioners to share their experiences and to collaborate with each other on improving InnerSource. If interested in sponsoring this event, please contact Dr. Lorraine Morgan for more details (Lorraine.morgan@nuigalway.ie).

Agenda and Speakers

We are delighted to welcome John Landy and Eoin Conneely (Ericsson) and Professor Brian Fitzgerald (Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre) as our keynote speakers.

John Landy

John Landy is a leader in Systems and Technology at Ericsson. In his 20-year career at Ericsson, John has held a number of technical leadership roles, including head product owner for the Community-Developed Software project, which introduced Inner Source software development to the Ericsson. As well as participating in numerous industry and academic events in Ireland, John has spoken at OSCON and gave a keynote address at the 2017 Inner Source Commons Fall Summit. He also contributed to the O’Reilly 2018 publication “Adopting Inner Source”. John holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems from the University of Limerick.

Eoin Conneely

Eoin Conneely is the Head of the Application Development Platform Program to enable cloud native application development & Head of Strategy Implementation for PDU OSS. Prior to this role, Eoin amassed over 25 years’ experience with Ericsson (LM Ericsson Limited), and also holds extensive professional experience in software and Agile S/W development. Eoin earned his Bachelor of Engineering Electronic (1989-1993) from National University of Ireland, Galway

Professor Brian Fitzgerald

Professor Brian Fitzgerald is Director of Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre, where he previously held the role of Chief Scientist. Prior to that he served as Vice-President Research at the University of Limerick. He also holds an endowed professorship, the Krehbiel Chair in Innovation in Business & Technology, at the University of Limerick. His research interests lie primarily in software development, encompassing open source and inner source, crowdsourcing software development, agile and lean software development, and global software development. His publications include 16 books, and over 150 peer-reviewed articles in the leading international journals and conferences in both the Information Systems and Software Engineering fields, including MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Information Systems Research (ISR), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodology (TOSEM). Prior to taking up an academic position, he worked in the software industry for about 12 years, in a variety of sectors (including finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, bespoke software development) in a number of countries (Ireland, Belgium, Germany).

Conference Speakers

Brent Beer

Brent Beer is a Senior Solutions Engineer with GitHub. More details uploaded shortly.

Max Capraro

Maximilian Capraro is a researcher and doctoral candidate at the Open Source Research Group at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He received the bachelor of engineering degree in information and communication technology from the BA Eisenach and the master of science degree in computer science from the Friedrich-Alexander-University. He is alumnus of the Siemens Masters Program. Max worked on inner source in research projects with a variety of companies including Black Duck Software, Continental, and multiple Siemens business units. He developed the patch-flow measurement method (for measuring software development collaboration) and the first classification framework for inner source projects and programs. His research interests include quantification of software development collaboration, inner source and open source, software code code and process metrics, software architecture, design and implementation.

Danese Cooper

Ms. Danese Cooper has been the Head of Open Source Software at PayPal, Inc. since February 2014. She was Chairperson of the Node.js Foundation from June 2015 through June 2017, and continues to serve on that board. Ms. Cooper previously served as the CTO of Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., as Chief Open Source Evangelist for Sun and as Sr. Director of Open Source Strategies for Intel. She concentrates on creating healthy open source communities and has served on the Boards of the Drupal Association, the Open Source Initiative, the Open Hardware Association and has advised Mozilla and the Apache Software Foundation, where she has been a Member since 2005. She also runs a successful open source consultancy which counts Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, SETI Foundation, Harris Corporation and Numenta as clients. She has been known to knit through meetings.

Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar

Daniel Izquierdo Cortazar is a researcher and one of the founders of Bitergia, a company that provides software analytics for open source ecosystems. Currently the chief data officer at Bitergia, he is focused on the quality of the data, research of new metrics, analysis, and studies of interest for Bitergia customers via data mining and processing. Daniel holds a PhD in free software engineering from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, where he focused on the analysis of buggy developers activity patterns in the Mozilla community.

Hong Phuc Dang

Hong Phuc Dang is currently the InnerSource driver at Zalando where she acts as a consultant to engineering teams across departments to scale open culture and promote best practices of Open Source development within the company. Previous to this role, she co-founded FOSSASIA, one of largest open source organizations in Asia. She has more than 10 years of experience in leading open source community and managing various projects spanning hardware, software and international tech events and exhibitions. She is known for applying open source best practices to meet business goals.

Thomas Froment

Thomas Froment is the lead of Thales Inner Source Software Community – aiming at promoting Open Source Software (OSS) development practices and establishing open source-like collaborations within Thales group. After two decades of software development and engineering experiences as developer, team lead and architect in Internet, Cloud Computing and Telco industries, Thomas is totally investing himself as an Agile coach willing to make cultural changes happen for real in his company. In 2016, he decided to let aside his agile coach hat, taking the lead of Inner Source initiative as part of the Thales Digital Transformation program. Prior to Thales, Thomas had various experiences ranging from Corporate Research Engineer at Alcatel-Lucent to IT infrastructure manager in a SaaS Software editor. He has been a contributor at Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), author of RFC 5658, member of SIP Forum and speaker in several international conferences. He is author in several publications and 14 patents around internet protocol security, distributed system, SIP and peer to peer technologies. He is also a Certified Scrum Master and Certified SAFe Agilist.

Wolfgang Gehring

As Senior Scrum Master and Agile Coach, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring sees one of his main responsibilities to keep his teams happy and empower them to perform at their best. Infected with the Inner Source virus about three years ago, he turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the ideas within Daimler AG and its IT-subsidiary Daimler TSS. At the beginning of his journey to Inner Source, he would’ve never imagined that it would get him to dive into the worlds of the legal and tax departments of a multi-national corporation, which is as strange a world to him as is the IT world for them. In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is a passionate traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birthplace city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Georg Gruetter

Georg is a software developer with over 30 years of professional experience. He has been a leading figure in the InnerSource initiative at Bosch since its inception in 2009. Currently he is working with the IoT division at Bosch. Georg is an avid recumbent and mountain bike rider and enjoys staying up late to practice astrophotography.

Malcolm Herbert

Chief Technologist at Red Hat Consulting, where I’ve worked for 18 years. Advocate of organisational and business change to support technology developments.

Jorge Herrera

Jorge Herrera is an agility enthusiast, currently working as Technical Manager for Entelgy. Fully convinced about incoming disruptive ways of work, through open source and InnerSource practices and new organizational structures. After several years developing software and managing teams, now my objective is helping developers to work easy, funny, and productive.

Tobie Langel

Tobie Langel is the founder of UnlockOpen, a boutique consulting firm that helps large organizations understand and leverage contributing to open source to recruit, retain, and foster top software engineering talent, and improve their teams’ efficiency, culture, and morale. His clients include top tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Intel, or Mozilla. Previously, he was a member of Facebook’s Open Source and Web Standards team, and was Facebook’s Advisory Committee representative at W3C. An avid open-source contributor, Tobie Langel is know for having co-maintained the Prototype JavaScript Framework and for numerous open source projects. He also edited a number of Web standards, including WebIDL, and led W3C’s Web platform testing effort.

Olivier Liechti

Olivier is professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HEIG-VD). He is also co-founder and CTO of Avalia Systems, a software analytics company. Before joining HEIG-VD in 2007, Olivier worked for 6 years at Sun Microsystems. He was previously CTO of Lotaris, a mobile licensing and payment company. He has a master degree in computer science from University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and a Ph.D. from University of Hiroshima.

Kevin Newman

Managing Director, Product Engineering

Shelly Nezri

Shelly Nezri is a software engineer at Elbit Systems and the company’s InnerSource community leader, where she promotes fun and gamification. Previously, Shelly was a software developer, architect, and manager. She holds a BSc in computer engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. In her free time, she likes hanging out with friends, jogging, and raising three little tearaways.

Katrina Novakovic

Katrina joined Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, in 2013 and is as an Open Source business architect working across the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region within Red Hat Consulting, guiding customers through the process and cultural changes needed for digital transformation and technology adoption to ensure customer success. She holds a Bachelor of Science Honours degree in Computer Science with Management from Royal Holloway University, University of London.

Ana Jimenez Santamaria

Ana is a Software Marketing Strategist currently working at Bitergia, a Software Development Analytics firm specialized in Open Source and InnerSource projects. As marketing specialist and Data Nerd, Ana is really interested in Open Source Communities and strongly believes that Marketing and Software Development Analytics can (and should) work together to help Open Source Communities to better achieve their goals.

When she isn’t glued to a computer working on SEO activities, developing content strategy or dealing with analytics, Ana spends her time gaming, illustrating and learning Japanese. She has been a speaker at some international conferences such as CHAOSSCon Brussels 2019 and DevRelCon Tokyo 2019.

Ben Van ’t Ende

Ben is partner and collaboration strategist at Age of Peers. With Age of Peers Ben deals with a large variety of existing open source projects and companies that want to go open source for some or all of their products implementing community strategy. Ben is specifically interested in the human side of tech and on occasion speaks about leadership and burnout. You can reach Ben on Twitter at @benvantende.

Johannes Tigges

Johannes is an Open Source and Inner Source enthusiast currently working for HERE Technologies. He is working on establishing Inner Source and internal software communities within HERE. Before that he established and contributed to CI, CD and DevOps efforts in various other organizations - be it the technical or organizational and cultural aspects. He has a background in computer science and sociology and is generally interested in organizations, the human aspects of the software development domain as well as technical approaches to facilitating and measuring those.

Kristof Van Tomme

Kristof Van Tomme is an open source strategist and architect. He is the CEO and co-founder of Pronovix. He’s got a degree in bioengineering and is a regular speaker at conferences in the API, DevRel, and technical writing communities. For a few years now he’s been building bridges between the documentation and Drupal community. He is co-organiser of the London Write the Docs meetup, and cheerleader for the Amsterdam Write the Docs meetup group. After his first two InnerSourcing Conferences, Kristof got really excited about pattern languages and how they can be applied to help teams develop better documentation despite the constraints that exist for internal software programs.

What is the InnerSource Commons?

The InnerSource Commons (InnerSourceCommons.org) aka ISC is a consortium of representatives from almost a hundred companies and institutions. It utilizes open source methods to provide organizations pursuing inner sourcing a forum for discussing and improving the practice of InnerSource through the sharing of experiences (under the Chatham House Rule), creation and review of InnerSource patterns, and the open exchange of ideas.

Who should attend?

The InnerSource Common Summits welcomes software professionals at all levels, from executive level manager to software developer. The program targets software development managers and executive managers in particular because adopting InnerSource requires significant efforts to make changes in the organization—whether these are implemented top-down or bottom-up. If you or your organization is adopting, or considering adopting, InnerSource, then attending the InnerSource Summit is the best thing you can do.

What will I get from this event?

The three key reasons to attend the InnerSource Common Summits are:

Learn from others who are on the journey of InnerSource adoption
Share your experiences and get help with your challenges
Network, network, network! The InnerSource Commons is an excellent place to network with likeminded people, all of whom are passionate about making InnerSource a success in their respective organizations!

Venue

This Summit is hosted by the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) at the North Campus in the J.E Cairnes Building. A full interactive campus map is also available at: www.nuigalway.ie/campus-map/

Travel and Transit

Three proximate Airports of choice are as follows:

Shannon Airport

The airport serves flights from north America and Continental Europe. The Airport is of particular ease to traffic from the USA with pre-clearance services provided by US Customs. Most of the major European Hubs ranging from Frankfurt, Heathrow and Schipol provide regular flight services across major carriers. Shannon Airport has a bus service (Bus Éireann) from the front door of the Airport Terminal Serving Galway City. The bus journey from the airport varies with Express journeys taking 1 Hour 30 Minutes approx. Car Rental Services are available. Train services are available from Limerick City which can be accessed by bus.

Dublin

Dublin is the main national airport and enjoys access from all major worldwide hubs. Bus access is available to Galway from public bus services and private operators such as GoBus and CityLink. Car rental services are available. The Galway train is accessible bus bus to Heuston Station. Regular trains to Galway leave from Heuston Station.

Knock

Knock Airport is north of Galway City and can be accessed by bus services. It is a small regional airport. However, it has regular flight access from the UK, Spain and some limited continental airports. Car Rental Services are available. Train services can only be accessed by bus and are not direct.

Hotels

Galway Features a Number of Hotels that are proximate to the University. Attendees are encouraged to book early. Local options Include, Hotels, Guesthouses, Air B&B and Hostels. If attendees are booking late or experience difficulties booking please contact the organisers and alternative room provision can be arranged.

The House Hotel, Galway (Within several minutes walk of the South Campus) - **NUIG rate available (delegates should quote NUI Galway rate when booking)
Jurys Inn, Galway (Within several minutes walk of the South Campus) - **NUIG rate available (delegates should quote NUI Galway rate when booking)
Maldron Hotel Sandy Road (Five Minutes Taxi Journey from J.E Cairnes School)
Salthill Hotel (Ten Minutes Taxi Journey from J.E Cairnes School)
Asgard Guesthouse (Ten Minutes Taxi Journey from J.E Cairnes School)

Other Hotels & Hostels in Galway City:

Restaurants

Below is a list of some recommended restaurants around Galway city:

John Keoghs Bar & Restaurant, 22 Dominick Street – +353 91 449431
Dela Restaurant, 51 Lower Dominick Street – +353 91 449252
Kai, 22 Sea Road – 091 526003
Kirby’s of Galway, Cross Street – +353 91 569404
The Seafood Bar @ Kirwan’s, Kirwan’s Lane – +353 91 568266
Martine’s Restaurant, Quay Street – +353 91 565662
Deli La Tasca, 1 Dominick Street Upper – +353 85 1082115
Oscars Seafood Bistro, Dominick Street Lower – +353 91 582180

Code of Conduct

All participants, vendors, and guests at InnerSource Commons events are required to abide by the code of conduct.

InnerSource Commons meetings and events run under the Chatham House Rule: information discussed at a meeting can be shared but not attributed.

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